[PDB-tech] Country Code "XK"

[LOOS Eric (BCS/CBU)]

Hi Martin,

True enough, but I came across this issue when I was trying to use the django-peeringdb code, it relies on django_countries, which is using ONLY ISO approved country-codes. I did a quick hack an added XK to it (+ XK mapping to UNK, numeric 900) UNK = under supervision of united nations, 900-999: numeric range reserved for user defined situations.

So our only option to make django_peeringdb work out of the box if we want to keep non-ISO country codes is to create a new CountryField from the one supplied by django_countries, which has a filter accepting these private ranges. The API docs do show 'XK' as a choice.

Eric Loos

-----Original Message-----
From: Pdb-tech [mailto:pdb-tech-bounces at lists.peeringdb.com] On Behalf Of Martin J. Levy
Sent: Thursday 5 May 2016 21:48
To: pdb-tech at lists.peeringdb.com
Subject: Re: [PDB-tech] Country Code "XK"

Any X[A-Z] code is simply a privately used county code. Kosovo has been XK for a while in the RIPE DB.

> On May 5, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Arnold Nipper <arnold.nipper at de-cix.net> wrote:
>
> Somehow "XK" is a valid country code [0]. However ist is not listed as
> current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Actually it is a
> so called user-assigned code element.
>
> Arnold
>
> [0] see e.g.
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